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Members
are cordially invited to the 65th Annual General Meeting of Proportional
Representation Society of Australia (Victoria-Tasmania) Inc. at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday 22nd September
2010 on the First Floor of 27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne (Melway 1AJ5), between
Elizabeth and Queen Streets, and Bourke and Little Bourke
Streets on the west side. The meeting will be followed at 8 p.m. by an
address, as below, by the Treasurer of Victoria and Member for Southern
Metropolitan Region, Mr John Lenders MLC.

Dr Stephen Morey

Secretary, PRSAV-T Inc.

AGENDA

1.Apologies, Confirmation of Minutes of the 64th Annual General
Meeting, on 16th September 2009

2.Reports by PRSAV-T Inc. President and Treasurer

3.Announcement of Election by Postal Ballot of PRSAV-T Inc. Council for
2010-2011

4.Motion recommended by PRSAV-T Inc. Council: “That Mr John Lenders MLC be admitted as
an Honorary Life Member of PRSAV-T Inc. in accordance with Rule 5(d) of the
Constitution.”

CITATION:

“John Lenders MLC, who is Treasurer of the State of Victoria, and a
Member of the Legislative Council for Southern Metropolitan Region, has
rendered distinguished services towards the purposes of PRSAV-T Inc. as a long
term advocate of the use of a quota-preferential proportional representation
system for the election of members of Victoria's Legislative Council to
replace the winner-take-all systems that had been used for the election of its members since
1856.

He is
the Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council who introduced into that Council, where
only a minority of its members now belong to the Government Party, the 2003
Bill that successfully amended Victoria's Constitution Act 1975 to entrench in it, importantly, key aspects of the new multi-member
electoral districts by means of a requirement for approval at a referendum
before future changes can occur, and also amended the Electoral Act 2002 to provide for quota-preferential proportional representation, with
the partial optional preferential below-the-line voting
prescribed being far more acceptable to voters than the mandatory full
preferential below-the-line voting mandated for Upper House elections elsewhere in Australia”

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GUEST SPEAKER: Mr John Lenders MLC will
speak on instituting PR for Victoria’s
Upper House elections.